3rd Anniversary

Last Wednesday, June 15th we celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary.  We have started a tradition of doing 1 thing on the 1st, 2 on the 2nd, and so this year we decided to do 3 meals out for our 3rd anniversary.  In living here for almost a year we have come to find our favorite places, while still knowing of a few un-found gems.  We rarely eat breakfast out because the last thing we want to do on a Saturday or Sunday morning is fight the noise, dirt, traffic, and cultural stresses, instead we prefer to bunker down in our apartment and create a "western world."  But last Wednesday we headed out for a big American breakfast.  We went to Freebird and got breakfast burritos.  And they were amazing!  We enjoyed a long breakfast over several cups of coffee and then walked around the boutique filled street of  St. 240 and admired the fun clothes and book stores.

Lunch: We went to Fatboy Subs, a top 5 favorite for us here.  It tastes just like Subway, and sometimes that is exactly what we need.  We did decide to spread out the love and we went here last Sunday.  Again it was a treat and we look forward to our next visit to this magical place...

 Dinner: This was our big anniversary celebration.  We went last Saturday night, and were looking forward to it for weeks.  Ocean was our pick. We had been once before and thought it was the best food in Phnom Penh, so decided to return.  It is a Mediterranean restaurant, and we did the whole nine yards, drinks, appetizer, seafood meals, dessert, coffee, and after drinks.  We even took a tuk tuk (we like to call it our personal driver, but the truth is it's not that special and we could do it all the time but we choose to drive our moto instead.) But not this time... we took our personal driver!  We had a great evening out and enjoyed once again a time to celebrate another wonderful year of marriage.

Wine at Home: On Wednesday (our actual anniversary) we decided to have some wine and sit on our porch and relax.  Well nothing, and I mean nothing, made in Cambodia doesn't break.  Things you think that couldn't possibly be made at a poorer quality are, at least three times a week something breaks in our house or at our work places.  It is actually quite amazing.  Well, Chris was opening the bottle of wine for us and while pulling the cork out, the screw just ripped right off the wine key and got stuck in the cork.  It made us laugh and then we jimmy rigged the bottle open and enjoyed the evening.